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GE Loading ???.
Author: Nudge
Date: 02-04-2017 - 12:05
GEs were famous for dropping loads if you touched the throttle. If you tipped over Arlight and tied your train down with air, you didn't dare touch the throttle. If you did, either increase or decrease, the load would drop to zero and then slowley come back up. If you had a bunch of GEs on the head end, hang on. Here comes the train. If you were on the Zipper, you cold lose between 5 to 8 minutes between Arlight and Concepcion.
A lot of times we would get a U-33 or 6700 on the east peddler & there were a lot places we had to make a drop of cars. What you did was shut off the generator field switch, put the throttle in run 8 and wait. When the engine was finally wound up, the brakeman would give a sign. You would kick off the jam, turn on the Gen Fld Sw and bang instant load. When the brakeman would give you a sign, you would set the jam for a pin, turn the switch off and then back on and get away from the car. It was against the rules, damage to the generator and or traction motors, but that was the only way you could make a drop with a GE. Oh, those 6700s, had a 16 notch throttle that was as long as a whores dream, a real pain.
Nudge
A lot of times we would get a U-33 or 6700 on the east peddler & there were a lot places we had to make a drop of cars. What you did was shut off the generator field switch, put the throttle in run 8 and wait. When the engine was finally wound up, the brakeman would give a sign. You would kick off the jam, turn on the Gen Fld Sw and bang instant load. When the brakeman would give you a sign, you would set the jam for a pin, turn the switch off and then back on and get away from the car. It was against the rules, damage to the generator and or traction motors, but that was the only way you could make a drop with a GE. Oh, those 6700s, had a 16 notch throttle that was as long as a whores dream, a real pain.
Nudge
